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Opening repertoire

Recently I started playing the royal game of chess. I was wondering what's the best way to build up your opening repertoire and skills. There are several excellent youtubers that I can consult ofcourse but they don't always explain in broad why a certain move in a certain opening is the best move since there are sometimes several moves you can make. Perhaps any books that I can read?

Sincerely
If you just recently started playing the normal advice is to stick with playing e4 as white, and replying e5 as black. The Giuoco Piano aka Italian Game is generally recommended.

That way you can learn some important fundamental skills before (maybe) moving on to other types of openings.

If you had a "Learn to play chess" book, whatever it had to say about openings should be enough to keep you going for quite a while.

Most opening books are likely to be way over your head at this point, even ones that claim to be "basic", but if you really want to know more you might try something like this:

http://gambitbooks.com/books/Chess_Openings_for_Kids.html

If you ignore the kid-friendly cover, the content looks to be highly suitable for adults just starting out, or indeed for more experienced players that have not already read some opening books.
For white, any of c4 (English) d4 (Queen's pawn) e4 (King's pawn). As black stick to the King's Indian defense with Knight f6, g6, and Bishop g7. You can play around with the order of moves and may need d6 to keep the Knight from being kicked around followed by Knight b d7 and some form of central attack such as c5 or e5.

Whatever the opening, the move order may or may not be important. The general ideas are to develop the pieces as quickly as possible, get the King to safety, and control the center.
Play 1. d4 2. Bf4 3. e3 4. Nf3 5. Bd3 6 c3 pretty much no matter what black does as white. Play e5 and get the pieces out against e4. Play d5 and get the pieces out against d4. That would be my recommendation: Don't worry too much about the opening moves, just get into a middlegame as fast as possible.
It isn't too good to play system openings(Kings Indian Attack,Colle) when you're trying to improve i think,try all the openings you want to try out and modify your opening repertoire based on the openings you like.Knowing different pawn structures is important in the long run.Don't worry if it is slightly unsound(Albin Counter/Blackmar Diemer Gambit) as most likely,your opponent's usually won't know how to refute them and you get free and easy piece play.

Play 1.d4 or 1.e4.The transpositional possibilities after 1.c4 and 1.Nf3 are pretty confusing.Anyway, at your level,tactics are the most important stuff and just choose openings based on your liking.
First, you should get to know the four opening principles well: 1. Control the Center 2. Develop your pieces 3. Get your King to safety and 4. Connect the Rooks. When I was first working on this, I watched bullet games (where they like to play bad openings because it makes the game really crazy) and point out to myself every move that broke these principles (like 1. h4).

After that, I would suggest learning the Italian Game as White, as it is a very straight-forward and principled opening that doesn't require much theory to reach a good middlegame position. After that, you should learn the Ruy Lopez (Spanish Game), as it is essentially a more aggressive, tactical version of the Italian game (except for the exchange variation, which is it's own thing). With the Ruy Lopez, you should look into opening traps for both sides so you can avoid them (most of them are really bad to play because, if your opponent knows how to counter them, you end up in a terrible position), as there are many games that have ended within 10 moves or so. You should also learn to play them both as Black, as these are the most popular openings at the beginning level.

You should also come up with a good line against the Queen's Gambit. 2. ...e6 is the more classical approach (the Queen's Gambit Declined) but 2. ...c6 (the Slav Defense) is also a good line a beginner could learn. It's very important that you study tactics often, because the best opening in the world isn't going to save you if your opponent out-calculates you. I hope that helps. :)
Thanks for all the great advice, this will help me go further for sure.

Sincerely
The openings doesn't matter in your case because you don't understand them.

Learn to protect your pieces. This is the most important thing.

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